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Healthy Davis Together adds third COVID testing site Healthy Davis Together, a joint project between the city of Davis and UC Davis, will open its third COVID-19 testing site at Veterans Memorial Center on Thursday. Healthy Davis Together provides free, saliva-based COVID-19 testing for asymptomatic individuals who live and work in Davis. Currently testing is taking place at the Davis Senior Center and Mondavi Center. As the community waits for widespread vaccination, “frequent testing is the best tool to detect COVID-19 before it spreads,” the city noted in a press release on Monday. “...

Letter: Share Davis testing resources The city with the lowest COVID-19 infection rate has the most robust testing program in the county, known as “Healthy Davis Together”. Though the program is effective and being praised, why is it not being shared throughout the county? Why is the county not demanding that Davis share these resources? Davis residents are being encouraged to test twice a week. That is great for Davis. Yet with the same resources, the entire county could be tested twice per month. If Davis had a program to buy vaccine for all its residents, other cities would be up in ar...

Local leaders concerned about ‘scary’ COVID variant The governor may have lifted the regional stay-at-home order covering Yolo County last week, but a more infectious new variant of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, and continued high case levels connected to holiday gatherings, call for increasing vigilance, according to those overseeing Healthy Davis Together. In an update to the Davis City Council last week, Dr. Brad Pollock, chair of the public health sciences department in the UC Davis Medical School, said he was “a little surprised by Gov. (Gavin) Newsom’s lifting the stay-a...

By Gloria Partida and Gary May Special to The Enterprise Last year at this time, it would have been hard to imagine how normal it would feel to wear a mask every day, that we could celebrate with joy even when we’re not together, and that we could develop effective vaccines in record time. But here

COVID-19 vaccines — in addition to saliva tests and sewage tests — will be covered at the UC Davis COVID Symposium on Wednesday, Jan. 13. The new addition to the panel is UC Davis Health physician Stuart Cohen, chief of the division of infectious diseases and director of the Hospital Epidemio